an explosion at the fukushima atomic power plant in japan triggers fears of possible nuclear fallout the reactors roof has collapsed injuring four workers people within twenty kilometers of the plants are being evacuated. the desperate search for survivors seized japan's entire defense force mobilized after the huge tsunami swept away entire villages and submerged dozens of times over seven hundred people are confirmed dead tonight but thousands more are still unaccounted for. in other news the afghan president says nato and african troops should leave his country just days after having card sized cousin as well as nine children

collecting firewood were killed in separate u.s. attacks we report on that story plus. the arab league has reportedly but it's a no fly zone over libya none of which calls for gadhafi to go. this is r.t. it's midnight now here in moscow welcome if you just joined us one is kevin owen in the main use the world's attention still focused on the earthquake disaster in japan of course and crews are now working tonight at the fukushima number one nuclear plants in the tsunami hit north to try to prevent a possible meltdown after a powerful blast at the facility earlier it said the explosion was caused by a failure of the cooling system while the reactor itself was unaffected by. you

asians are underway over a twenty kilometer radius amid fears of contamination three patients at a local hospital just three kilometers from the plant we hear have tested positive for radiation exposure now crucially maybe they were already at the hospital when that blast occurred officials say they're showing no signs of illness though so far the u.n. nuclear watchdog says it's being told by japan that radiation levels near the plant have fallen in recent hours and that explosion comes after friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami that struck japan's coast and cause destruction dozens of kilometers inland to over seven hundred people are confirmed dead tonight in one town around nine and a half thousand remain unaccounted for. a ten meter high waves washed away entire villages many towns will survive. so possible radiation leak than from the fukushima nuclear plant remains the biggest

concern i have a plane it is in tokyo for r.t. . there have actually be around a hundred aftershocks or over that and out in fact powerful one it was centered around fukushima district measuring six on magnitude scale so quite a large aftershock centered and it turned out on the full focal shima district which is where the new nuclear reactor explosion took place prompting fears or potential nuclear fallout we have heard since that there was no damage done in that explosion to the reactor itself if there was then radiation would have been leaking in that was the initial fear in fact when they found cesium and radioactive iodine on the outside of the silla see probably heard hasn't been any damage that exposure to the reactor and radiation levels have since decreased and so much so in fact that. your thirty's have been able to release some of the pressure inside the

reactor because that's still very high indeed and that's still a concern it's still very hot in there as well and they need to release team to release the pressure and they've been able to do that since and without affecting the radiation levels everyone is concerned about the people near fukushima near these nearly explosion at this nuclear reactor the concern now is that spread of radiation there has been back you ation of the twenty kilometer radius as a precaution because radiation is in the air as an earlier today the levels of radiation there were if you stood outside for an hour next to the plant and it would have absorbed is not radiation if you would normally in a year also another plant is. under and emerged state emergency as well with residents in the city being evacuated to three thoughts a radius there being back in one hundred in tenach wants a radius they've been told to stay inside because still radiation. is very

prevalent in those areas and the ones in the twenty kilometer radius around the fukushima power plant number one. then now being treated for radiation sickness receiving hiding not that they have got sickness pretty just as a precaution and if need be they're being quarantined also in the sense of the power plant number two in the same area of focus she met people are being told to stay indoors within that implements radius not also being told. given some advice should they have been outside and they should cover their face trying to avoid breathing in any of the radiation so covered in mouth and nose cover up any exposed areas of skin or so when they get inside from coming in from the outside and they should wash and scrub themselves thoroughly and avoid drinking tap water because the fear is that that is also and tammany. cover bennett reporting from tokyo russia says it's increasing energy supplies to japan following requests from tokyo

artie's paper all of us got the details. russia has stepped into the breach with a. used to draw thirty percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations and that of course has been terrible. to the situation in fukushima and of course the situation in other power plants around the country following the earthquake and tsunami russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to japan as well as stepping up. its trade of coal to the country there's also the possibility of providing electricity directly to japan through an underwater cable which links the two countries prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. is a great tragedy for japan so i would like our corresponding ministries and before it is to work out plans for how to help our eastern neighbors we need to do everything to increase supplies of fuel to japan because of a slump in energy generation. second we need to continue monitoring the situation

in the russian far east as closely as possible i've just talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown that would put radioactive material into the air now the situation is being monitored very very closely in russia. this is due to of course the close proximity but also that close proximity there is a risk if there was clear material being put into the atmosphere that a change in weather changing wind could take any perspective perspective nuclear warheads russia's far east and cause problems there so that situation is being looked at as it stands at the moment the radiation levels normal in the far eastern

. russia. has been looked at as a by russia's nuclear watchdog to make sure that nothing untoward is going on there to make sure that the people on the ground there are receiving all the correct information they glued to their radios they're glued to their televisions and r.t.c. they're going to have a gauge the situation on the ground inside the us we're only six hundred miles away from fukushima and residents of the city of usually the capital of the region can't believe their eyes they are literally glued to their t.v. screens i wanted tory latest news as b.'s happening so close to their borders well before they were afraid shortly after friday's earthquake and tsunami in japan that there could be a chain reaction which could lead to a natural disaster in heating the region what they're afraid of now is a risk of radioactive contamination despite were not in immediate vicinity typical shima six hundred miles is not a lot at all for

a radioactive cloud the local margin says ministry keeps coming down people saying that they should not panning that they should do spend there we can't as usual though it's not really a relieve people keep calling them it's really hard to get through been trying for more than two hours when we finally could speak to a representative of the ministry has had the only question people keep asking over and over again what preventive measures they should take to avoid contamination and where they could get their personal geiger counters to measure radioactive the levels of radiation now emergency officials say that they will update locals on the latest and that there will be enough time to evacuate if necessary. catarina groucho over there reporting on the situation at the fukushima plant strong worrying parallels with the should nobbled nuclear explosion which remains of course the world's worst atomic plant disaster to date it happened twenty five years ago in the then soviet crane but the effects of that contamination is still

being felt today and look serious ask for r.t. is in kiev explains the similarities. obviously this white smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovis resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago in chernobyl and at the fukushima power plant now days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what caused the what caused them you know the the fallout internal was caused by a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happens which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events over twenty five years ago the government of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general

population in russia as well as from the rest of the world when told that a massive secret can train to just say guard this information and this was this is something which we're going to see today because the japanese government even though we have conflicting reports coming from the islands of what's happening there and we have no certainty of what caused this loss still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas at the fukushima region but this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of p.p.p. next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the town for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them that people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor of course these mistakes were learned the mistakes by that made by the soviet government and this

is what the japanese government is hopefully trying to avoid right now but. clearly as the situation is in trouble and it's one our difference despite what we can see in the pictures from the japanese television the meltdown itself the nuclear meltdown itself is a very scary thing for all scientists as i've been calling it their worst nightmare ever. this meltdown is all about the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and that's causing our nuclear chain reaction first and then a powerful steam explosion like it happened in turn noble this is like a rodeo it's trying to control a crazy horse because nobody knows whether you would be able to get the can react back under control or not this did not happen. this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the personnel of the car station tried to lower the output of the reactor and then bring it to a temporary halt when the reactor started behaving in an uncontrollable fashion

some of the personnel pressed the motion see brake button as we can as we can call it and just forty nine seconds since the start of the experiment the reactor exploded and that caused the fallout and the contamination of great areas all along the former u.s.s.r. so obviously as we've been hearing from the japanese authorities right now the reactor stays intact it's not been damaged according to the authorities and. we hopefully think that such contamination as it happened twenty five years ago which are not will would be avoided this time but of course we have to wait and see what happens next with all this developing story. absolutely election. he's a professor of economics at the university of nothing and he said that he believes the financial cost. of consequence is far beyond. i simply can't stand there and he's already you know pretty terrible situation under five years of

crises you could beings trouble really carbon. pricing is over the last two or three yes engines time to draw nami year and it was clean just going to give me an even harder is very difficult to assess the province or even pick a this state has in the impact will be significant but i hope it's in a nice didn't need to be called. you tossed it in the question because they may go it is just and it locks up tomorrow in the middle east it's going to cost the lives in crisis or boil in other words you know those and also the disgusting going to assimilate these kinds of meeting you think on what we are now being but i'm pretty sure you're not going to cause in the financial crises call cleveland's a sociology professor at temple university in tokyo he told us the japanese people's preparation and reaction as the ground shook beneath them was exemplary.

it was pretty compelling i mean this was a great book that was the least two or three minutes and eight and just continued a really strong level we were really quite amazed that the level of the forest going to date just continue and as i looked out the window i could see the trees and the white ball swaying just partly to the ground kind of dancing i do think of the japan as one of the part of all been advanced countries in terms of preparing projects because they catastrophic earthquakes and i think twenty three counts of quakes we. got ninety ninety three and because of that the building codes are from one thousand a benign in particular have really strict standards for construction and as a result the buildings are very very stable there's a remarkable lack of structural damage and this entire continent playing region

even the level of this earthquake was a very serious earthquake but in this area we will have more actually if i compare much we really can be incident certainly scary but it was much less damage and injury than might have been the case japan did not have such advanced construction that even though the trains were working it was an entirely safe move people was worried but it was very stable course there was nobody no crime or anything like people were extremely i think sensitive an empathetic to other people a real kind of communitarian kind of attitude towards one another and i'd find out you want more admirable aspects of the society people are very concerned about it paul. if you're just joining us the main developments coming out of japan today work is underway right now at the fukushima number one nuclear plant two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo to prevent a possible melt after a powerful blast at the facility earlier on it was reportedly caused by

a failure of the pumping system and not the reactor itself which was undamaged a twenty kilometer radius evacuation zone has been imposed three patients at a local hospital just three kilometers from the plant a tested positive for radiation exposure we hear they were already at the hospital when the blast occurred at the u.n. nuclear watchdog says it's been told by japan that radiation levels near the plant of fall and in recent hours friday's as quake was the biggest since records began in japan a massive tsunami that followed the tremor and spread destruction killing at least seven hundred people almost ten thousand remain unaccounted for. to the news now afghan president hamid karzai says nato and the u.s. should stop their operations in the water and country it comes just days after karzai cousin and nine children collecting firewood were killed in two separate u.s. attacks that is daniel bushell has the details. the afghan president hamid karzai

as you say was furious at what he sees as a spate of killings by nato troops he gave a speech his exact words were the u.s. and nato i asked to stop operations on our soil he made the call as part of an emotional speech highly critical of the organization and its allies as a whole comes after visiting survivors of an air raid in the east of the country where he saw the leg over a one year old child amputated knee actually cried on seeing those themes just a few days ago nato troops killed because i was causing in another night raid in kandahar and that follows just recently nato admitting he had killed nine children in a similar raid and just before that another sixty five civilians afghan officials alleged were killed an investigation is under way there the spokesman for the afghan president clarified that because i meant that civilian deaths should

stop but this is being seen as a highly critical and embarrassing moment for nato that's what's being discussed here in brussels at the moment nato faces an increasing barrel of criticism not only from its own allies but in afghanistan as well the mood of the population already highly and to american is turning toxic it wants to billion this to stop the population says that the attack should come on the borders where they believe the real danger is and not in villages throughout the country and need to refrain from officially responding to calls those comments here but off the record american officials have said they are very angry at what they see as a public slap in the face for nato and its allies. daniel bushell our europe correspondent john braces now activist from the u.k. based stop the war coalition he told me states the afghan president to demand the

complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country but would hardly be surprising given what he's just experienced to be almost what he's just experienced is what thousands and thousands of are. experiencing over the last ten years all war and occupation. a moment too soon if he is calling. us troops to get out i think just today actually news coming out of washington they're looking for a good time scale for staying in afghanistan where you really do have to say if this problem hadn't been solved by military means in a decade how long are we looking there we can go to twenty years. should i think really clear and i hope there is no military solution to the situation but the solution lies in the hands of the people in the west gets open allows them to get on with looking for one. of the other developments today the arab league has

backed the idea of a no fly zone over libya after the emergency summit member states agreed to ask for u.n. security council to impose the restriction the u.k. and france have been pushing the idea but have so far failed to win international backing the arab league an e.u. also want colonel gadhafi to step down and fusion in chaos meantime continues in libya amid the constant shifting the balance of power i think xander point because in the rebel stronghold of benghazi for us where people feel that any help that arrives now is simply too late. hasty and an abashed in their pricing in eastern libya is like most of its pretty disciplined young impulsive and irreverent to the regime these twenty two year old who had never held the gun before let alone the news that that is the movement my father showed me how to use it a few weeks ago i'm ready to die for my country many in gaza proclaim their readiness to sacrifice their lives for their liberation struggle now these heroic

rhetoric is becoming a real prospect as if rogue government forces as closer a bloodbath seems all good than avoidable international deliberations and what to do about believing an uprising has been going on for so long that many people in that he no longer hold that county will come in and sat there peeling to allen our last hope as they get out before things are closing in on the battle cd friday prayers in gaza where the most passionate so far city residents turn their palms to the skies that many hold would have been declared a no fly zone by now. as more coffins arrive from the front line high spirits have given way to sense of abandonment to several weeks of encouraging statements from western capitals many here feel deceived i'm sorry to see that photo of mr obama we expect that the of them got the care and the liberty looking for liberty for the

people's you look for money first got the money first. a little. kill every day and every night everywhere in while in the city's arches are mobilizing their best resources to boost morale the song has become an unofficial hymn of the rebellious youth them tough. enough yes. but. still. good our feed grain upon his people is just one of many themes that not all caricaturist have adopted for their visual a fancy of improved to exhibit like this one and now on display in almost every rebel controlled c.g. believe the leader has unexpectedly unleashed unprecedented creativity in his people. as yet there are

no signs of people leaving regards the partially because i really finding themselves in a catch twenty two situation living now maybe seen as betraying the opposition staying for too long may lead to persecution later on it's very hard to say what the balance of forces is how many people are for me how many are against him and indeed whether that situation is changing many people within libya. because very few that it's a repressive government turning now are following the examples in tunis syria egypt to seeking freedom of speech for me freedom of organization and wanting a democratic form of government. ironically it wasn't been glad that more margaret duffy began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary he overthrew the king in a bloodless coup because for liberation and an end to tyranny those who oppose you

now even younger and demanding the same things but that's where many fear historic parallels might and the subway car r.t. been guys the. stone with the rest of the arab world police in yemen have a tough time government demonstrate two people were killed when the shoes live bullets to suborn succumbing to disperse protesters group of around ten thousand full of makeshift sanford. samples from weeks of demonstrations against the thirty two year rule of america by president bush i said day left bird. israeli military has launched a massive manhunt after five members of a jewish family were killed in a west bank settlement the family including three children was stabbed to death by an intruder who broke into the home according to israeli media a palestinian militant group of friends of sponsibility but it's unclear if they

did carry out the attack military officials said they've made arrests but wouldn't provide further details. to buses overturned in the bronx in new york it's killed at least fourteen people seriously injured a thirty two were aboard it when it crashed into a guardrail and flipped onto its side before smashing into the driver of the bus told local police that clicked his vehicle causing the accident the national transportation safety board is essentially the sixteen member team to investigate rush. it's midnight twenty six wasco time for the latest on the situation and news coming out of japan and the rest of the world check out our web site r t v dot com this is r t the international news channel from moscow i'm kevin owen thank you for watching the headlines are just around the corner.

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